Baggage-check



W. W. WILGOX.

BAGGAGE OHEGK.

N0; 280,427. Patented July 3, 1883.

N. PETERS, Phnln-Lilhagfiplwr, Washington, D C.

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

\VILLIAM \V. VILCOX, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

BAGGAGE-CHECK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 250,427, dated July 3, 1883.

Application filed October 4, 1879.

To all whom it 11mg canoe/7t.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM \V. \VILoox',

a citizen of the United States, residing in Ohicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illi 'nois, have invented a certain new and useful plate .of the check, so that said card may not be accidentally detached or mutilated when in use. I attain this object by devices illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective of a special check embodying my invention; Fig. 2, a "iew of another form of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate the same parts in both figures of the drawings.

A, Fig. 1, represents a flat metal plate, provided at its upper end with a slot, (1, and toward its lower end with two similar and parallel slots, Z) I), there being a sufiicient space below the lower one of these two slots and the end of the plate for the number of the check. Upon the back of this plate are the usual directions for returning the check to its owner.

B represents a destination-card, corresponding in width with the plate, and extending from the top of the plate to a point between the slots b b, as clearly shown in Fig. 1. This card is provided near each end with slots corresponding and coinciding with slots (4 b in the plate, to receive a strap, 1), of the ordinary construction.

To attach the card and plate together to form the complete check, the pointed or free end of the strap is inserted from the back of the plate through the lower slot, 1), and back through the slot of the card and the coinciding slot b of the plate, and through the usual transverse slot in the end of the strap, thence through the a flat metal plate slotted near each extremity,

upper slot of the plate and card, as shown. As the free end of the flexible strap, when taken hold of, is bent upwardly by the weight of the check, the upper end of the card is pinched against the plate.

The result of securing the card to the plate, as above described, is that the card is held flat against the plate, and substantially its e11- tire face, having the destination written upon it, exposed to view without exposing. projecting edges or corners, which catch upon objects and cause the card to be disfigured or torn loose, as frequently happens with cards merely strung upon the strap.

In the form shown in Fig. 2, plate A is pro vided with but one slot at each end, and, as indicated, card B is of a corresponding size, and provided with similar slots coinciding with those of this plate; but a supplemental and open plate, 0, forming a surrounding frame protecting the outer side'of the card, is employed. Plate 0 is fiat, and has slots corresponding with plate A and card B, and when secured by the strap where shown effectually clamps the card upon the plate A and protects the edges ol'the card, and prevents them from catching and the card being detent they are similar. Special checks are adapted to be used upon any railroad, &c., and necessarily require more card-surface to contain the direction, while regular checks are used upon the particular road or roads designated upon their face, and require only sufficient card-surface to designate a single wordas, for instance, the name of a town.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. In a special check, the combination, with of a destinationcard correspondingly slotted, provided with coinciding slots, receiving the and the strap passing through said slots and strap which locksthe plates and card together, 10 looking said plate and card together, snbstansubstantially as described. tially as described. r i 1 r 7 5 2. The combination, with the solid back VILLTAM ALLACE III/0k plate and the open-frmne-likc front plate, of \Vitnesses: an interi-nediate destination-mid and strap, \V. F. DUMMER, both ot'snid plates and the card being fiat, and THOMAS A. BANKING. 

